Chamber Music Work of the Day, Installment 23:
"Brief Prelude for Violin and Piano"
(2013, Revised 2022)
Like my brief solo flute composition, "Theme, Variation, and Reprise," "Brief Prelude for Violin and Piano" is one one of those pieces that, for years, I tried to make into a extended work, but my muse would not cooperate, insisting that I keep it a miniature, so I tweaked it a couple of years ago, and re-released it.
In "Brief Prelude for Violin and Piano" I am paying homage to three composers simultaneously. The musical language is twelve-tone tonality (Dallapiccola), the rhythms and contours are inspired by the song, "Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen" (Mahler), and emphasis on the perfect fifth interval from "La cathédrale agouties" (Debussy). Otherwise the harmonies and melodies are very much my own.
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"Brief Prelude for Violin and Piano" is available for licensing from me, and for sale from Sheet Music Plus. Follow the next URL to visit the distributor's product page for this title.
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Follow the next URL to here to listen to a synthesized rendition of "Brief Prelude for Violin and Piano" on my website. https://static.wixstatic.com/mp3/f3e5c9_7b187c6c276b41ffa60980175a3af6a8.mp3
I hope you enjoy "Brief Prelude for Violin and Piano". Thank you for your time and attention.
Stanley M. Hoffman, PhD
Link to my website: https://www.stanleymhoffman.com
Biography Published in Grove Music Online (The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, Oxford University Press)
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